
International visitors to London who plan to take in a show in the West End are now able to use a new closed-caption system which translates the musical Hairspray into a number of different languages.
Playbill reported that the new technology has been unveiled at the Shaftesbury Theatre - the first in the West End to be kitted out with the devices.
Using a hand-held closed-captioning system, theatregoers can view subtitled translations of the musical in Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and German.
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